Feb 14 · 10 min read · ~ A NOTE FROM YOUR SWEATY EDITOR ~ February. Supposedly the cold month. Our inboxes beg to differ. 🔥 HOT TAKE OF THE MONTH 🔥 (SEE WHAT WE DID THERE) THE AMMONIA MIRAGE: Shipping's "Green" Fuel Is About To Make You Wish It Stank Less. And Killed ...
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Feb 11 · 5 min read · The landscape of corporate sustainability reporting is constantly evolving, presenting both challenges and opportunities for businesses committed to reducing their environmental footprint. A significant development in this space is the Greenhouse Gas...
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Feb 10 · 13 min read · The gold mining industry is in the middle of one of the most significant transformations in its centuries-long history. From the way deposits are discovered to the methods used to extract, process, and refine the metal, clean technology is steadily r...
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Feb 10 · 5 min read · Gravity separation is the oldest mineral processing technique in existence. Long before anyone understood the chemistry of leaching or the physics of flotation, humans were panning for gold in rivers, exploiting the simple fact that gold is heavy. At...
Join discussionFeb 10 · 4 min read · The UK government's much-anticipated Circular Economy Strategy, originally slated for October, has been postponed until 2026. This delay, confirmed by Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds, presents both challenges and opportunities for commercial real...
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Feb 10 · 5 min read · Refining is the final transformation in gold's journey from raw ore to finished product. It is the step that converts impure doré bars, scrap, and concentrates into the high-purity bullion that enters the global market, typically at 99.99 per cent fi...
Join discussionFeb 10 · 5 min read · Remote gold mines face an energy challenge that their urban counterparts never encounter. Situated far from electricity grids, often in regions where road access is seasonal or unreliable, these operations have historically depended almost entirely o...
Join discussionFeb 10 · 5 min read · The traditional model of gold production is linear. Ore is extracted from the ground, processed through a sequence of physical and chemical steps to recover the gold, and the residual material is deposited as waste. Energy enters the system as fuel a...
Join discussionFeb 10 · 5 min read · Gold mining generates waste on an enormous scale. For every ounce of gold produced, hundreds of tonnes of rock are moved, crushed, processed, and discarded. Waste rock dumps, tailings facilities, spent reagents, worn equipment, packaging materials, u...
Join discussionFeb 10 · 5 min read · Gold smelting is an inherently thermal process. Melting gold requires temperatures in excess of 1,064 degrees Celsius, and the furnaces, kilns, and reactors used in smelting and refining operations maintain these extreme temperatures for extended per...
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